About the Contributors
Jane Petring teaches at Collège Édouard-Montpetit near Montreal, Quebec and the author of several ESL textbooks. Over the last three decades she has taught in China, Croatia, Ivory Coast, Niger and the US. Since 2004 she has experimented with online tools in education and been actively involved with the marvelous network of Webheads, an offshoot of the annual Electronic Villages Online–a collaborative volunteer learning experience that brings teachers from all over the world together by sharing pedagogical ideas using social software. This virtual book club grew out of the 2008 Blogging for Educators EVO.
Carla Arena is a Brazilian EFL educator temporarily living in Key West. She’s taking her time to learn new tricks on the web, connect to other like-minded educators, and share what she’s learned in the online spaces she has landed. She’s also a proud Webhead. She’s been teaching online and has been involved in different collaborative project with friends all over the globe. She’s a dreamer and believes in the power of education in transforming the micro-spheres of learners.
Nina Lyulkun has been teaching English at National University in Ukraine for 30+ years. Her experience of TESOL-Ukraine presidency gave her an opportunity to travel a lot around Europe and the USA. During these trips she learned a lot about International collaborative projects online, and she was involved in many of them, the recent ones:
Participant of TESOL’s “Principles and Practices of Online Teaching” certificate program: PP 108: Creating and Managing a Web-Based Course Management System (May 3-30, 2004); PP 109: Designing Interactive Activities for the Web (July 12-August 8, 2004). Participant of evonline2002_webheads since 2002. Later participant of BAW2005 and BAW07, blogging4beginners and now co-moderator of B4Ed2008. Happy to be involved into all of them.
Dennis Oliver, a U.S. educator with more than 30 years’ experience in ESL, is particularly interested in computer-mediated teaching and learning and has been active on the Web since the mid 1990s. Grateful to be part of the Webheads community of practice and a participant in this project, Dennis is inspired daily by international online colleagues and friends.
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Hi,all!
I got an invitation from Nina and I am here now. I am ready to join edublog but i found nowhere i click on this page.
Could you help?
Thanks.
Yaodong ( Liuzhou,China)